I give up.
I've been fighting the misbehaving police battle for a decade.
I can't begin to count how many times I've had to listen to the sanctimonious "Well, when *I* get stopped by the cops *I* just do what they tell me and it always turns out fine." Nothing can sway those sanctimonious buffoons. At least nothing I've ever found.
I've had every evil thing you can imagine wished upon me, followed by "then you'd change your tune." People have hoped my home gets broken into, my wife gets raped, my kids get kidnapped. All because I tried to point out that the cops aren't staying within the law. I've been threatened by people who pretended the only thing that kept them from beating me up was that "the cops protect even me."
I've had cops pull guns on me. Been told if they ever catch me for so much as jaywalking I will never live to get out of jail. Been threatened with literally every level of selective enforcement possible, up to and including a code enforcement cop telling me he would go over my eighty year old mother's house with a fine tooth comb.
When Black Lives Matter came along I said "I hope you succeed but I have little hope for peaceful protest." Because I said that I've been blamed for the recent cop shootings, as if the fact that peaceful protest was summarily ignored to begin with was my fault.
I listened when the president said it was time to dial back the rhetoric. I sat through the memorials and made myself watch the spouses and the kids. I cried for the fallen, on both sides, out of regret that despite my efforts it had had to come to this. And for the fact that I don't believe the sycophants will ever force the cops to change until a LOT more blood has been needlessly shed.
And I give up.
If seeing this guy get shot while laying on the ground pleading is written off as "well, that was once but OF COURSE that never happened before and won't EVER happen again," which I have no doubt that it will be, I see no path forward. The whole thing is just too surreal to be real. We are caught in some cosmic version of Candid Camera, and it's time to just sit and wait for the reveal.
"Laaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwd, Gaaaaahhd'avemercy!"
